Supreme Court to take up Centre’s affidavit on Covid management on May 13

The Supreme Court Monday mentioned it would undergo the compliance affidavit filed by the Centre on its vaccination and hospitalisation insurance policies. The high court docket, which is listening to a suo motu case on the management of Covid-19 pandemic, will take up the matter subsequent on May 13.
The Centre filed the affidavit after the highest court docket had requested the federal government to rethink its vaccine and healthcare policy in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic. The high court docket had additionally directed the Centre to formulate inside two weeks a nationwide coverage on admissions to hospitals within the wake of the second Covid wave.
In its affidavit, the central authorities has mentioned that given the restricted availability of vaccines, inoculating the complete inhabitants was not potential in a single go due to the suddenness of the pandemic however it would guarantee its “equitable distribution”.
The coverage was “just, equitable, non-discriminatory and based upon an intelligible differentiating factor between the two age groups (45 plus and those below)”, it mentioned.
Monday’s listening to within the high court docket had to be deferred due to some technical glitches within the digital courtroom. A bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud, L N Rao and S Ravindra Bhat mentioned, “Our server is down today. We judges had discussion among ourselves and have decided to take up the matter on Thursday.”
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